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NITED STATES A PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM I. YOUNG, OF LE RAY, NEW YORK.

FIELD-FENCE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,543, dated July 12, 1864.

To all whom it may awww/'n.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM I. YOUNG, of Le Ray, in Jefferson county, New York, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Constructing Farm and Field Fences; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description ofthe said invention.

I set rmly in the ground in the line of the fence a line of posts of the required height, setting them ten feet from each other. I then throw up an earth embankment one to two feet high, along such line of posts, so that the posts will stand in the center thereof. I then constructwood panels ten feet lon g and of sufhcient width to extend from the top of the embankY ment to the top of the posts, and so constructed at the ends that the ends will inter-lock with each otherthat is to say, the end of one panel will interlock into the end of the next panel, and thus each be made to support the other and hold it rmly in its place.

lhe fence, when put together, will present the interlocked ends of two panels lmidway between each two posts, and each post will stand in the middle of a panel.

rI`he panels are not nailed or screwed to the posts, and one of the great advantages of the invention is that the fence can, with entire facility and with very little labor, be laid down in the fall and set up in the spring, thus effectually obviating the accumulation of embankinents of snow and the blocking up of roads caused by standing fences in the winter in the northern part ofthe country.

The posts are to be set in two lines, which lines are to be three inches apart, and in each line the posts are twenty feet from each other, and the posts in one line alternate with the posts in the other line, and the center line of the fenceis the center of the three inches space between the two lines of posts. The perpendicular timbers at the ends of the panels, and which lap onto each other are three inches wide and two inches thick, thus giving four inches of timber toxll the three inches space between the two lines of posts, and hence requiring each panel to be sprung one inch at each end, and this spring of the panels holds them firmly together.

The accompanying drawings represent in perspective and plan view a fence constructed in accordance with my invention.

In the said drawings, A and A are the posts. They are shown to consist of pieces of timber round on the outside and plane surfaced on the side facing the panel. The posts are arranged at equal distances apart, the distance from post to post being equal to the length of the panel. The posts A A, alternating with posts A A,vare each arranged in a row, the distance between the rows being equal or somewhat less (to allow for the panels to spring and bind) than the thicknesses of three panels, supposing that the end pieces of the panels are of the same thickness as the panels themselves.

B are the panels. They are com posed of lor.- gitudinal rails r, united transversely by means of three braces, s, two of which are on the ends y of the panels and one about midway. The end pieces serve the purpose of locking tcgether the different parts, as shown at U.

In the foregoing description I havedescribed a fence and given the dimensions which I have found in practice to be the best and most convenient, but it will be'readily understood that withoutdeparture from the principle of my invention many modifications may be adopted in the details ofconstruction and arrangement.

I claim- The combination of a double row of fixed posts in alternating series with interlocking panels, arranged in relation to the post-s sub stantially in the manner and for operation as herein set forth.

VVM. I.- YOUNG. Vit'nesses:

JAMES F. SrARBUcK, HENRY S. Munson. 

